13562Re: New Member

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divad

Sep 6, 2013

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This is a very respectable list of people who have contributed significantly to typeface design. Too bad this list does not exist any longer, but I am glad that some members of this list are interested to talk about the topic.

Thank you,

Shab

--- In PPLetterpress@yahoogroups.com, Silber MaiKätzchen <maykitten1@...> wrote:
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> There was a yahoo group called typophiles anonymous, but; unfortunately it no
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> longer exists.
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> The fun of the group was that the poster decided what language he or she wished
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> to post with. in a given day the posts would be a mix of French, German, Italian,
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> Greek and sometime English. I usually posted in Swiss German.
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> The group started in the days of E-Groups and members included Adrian Frutiger,
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> Herman Zaph, Erik Spiekermann, Robert Slimbach, Wolfgang Weingart, Matthew
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> Carter, Carol Twombly, myself and many others.
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> MaiKätzchen
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> Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas:
> Carpe diem!
> quam minimum credula postero!
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> Horace
> Odes Book I
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> From: Shab Levy <shablevy@...>
> To: PPLetterpress@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:00 PM
> Subject: [PPLetterpress] New Member
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> Hello,
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> I am a new member of this forum. I am not a graphic designer, nor a
> letterpress person. I am interested mostly in fonts and typefaces as an
> art form and in their history and philosophy. Any discussion on these
> topics would be of special interest to me.
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> Thanks,
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> Shab
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